Today at the Capitol, 26 state legislators received “Friends of Freedom” awards from the Advance Arkansas Institute (AAI). Many of these legislators represent the top tier of scorers on AAI’s newly released 2017 Freedom Scorecard, an index of roughly 100 bills that were debated in this year’s legislative session.

Members of the Arkansas Tax Reform and Relief Legislative Task Force have a little over one year left to submit a written report to Gov. Asa Hutchinson and legislative leaders that describes how to make Arkansas’s tax code more competitive.